Last weekend's Monterey Pop music festival was a flower power-filled success.

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Updated: 3:40 PM PDT Jun 20, 2017

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WEBVTT CONRAD WAS AT THE EVENT AND SHEHAS AN EXCLUSIVE BACKSTAGE LOOK.CAITLIN: THERE WAS A LOT OF TALKAT MONTEREY POP ABOUT THE SUMMEROF LOVE.MANY OF THE PERFORMERS ONSTAGECALLED FOR A REVIVAL OF THESUMMER OF LOVE, AND 2017 TO BETHE START OF A NEW MOVEMENT.I SAT DOWN BACKSTAGE WITH TWOPERFORMANCE -- PERFORMERS TOTALK ABOUT IT.>> IT IS CLEAR, TO US ALL, THATWE ARE LIVING IN BEAUTIFUL BUTPECULIAR AND TERRIFYING TIMES.CAITLIN: ARTISTS TAKING THESTAGE AT MONTEREY POP THISWEEKEND MADE IT CLEAR, THEYBELIEVE THE TIME IS RIPE FORCHANGE.>> THE SUMMER OF LOVE, DO WEEVER NEED SO MUCH LOVE IN THEWORLD RIGHT NOW.CAITLIN: NATHANIEL RATELIFF ANDTHE NIGHTSWEATS ALMOST MISSEDOUT ON MONTEREY POP THIS YEAR. THE BAND IS SUPPOSED TO BETAKING TIME OFF TO RECORD THISSUMMER, BUT THE LEAD SINGER SAYSHE HAD TO BE A PART OF THEFESTIVAL.>> I TOLD THE PEOPLE I WORK WITHCOME I SAID I WOULD LIKE TO BE APART OF THIS.I FEEL LIKE IT IS REALLYIMPORTANT.IT WAS IMPORTANT 50 YEARS AGO,AND I FEEL IT IS EQUALLYIMPORTANT NOW.CAITLIN: RATELIFF AND HISBANDMATE, JOSEPH POPE THE THIRD,GREW UP POOR, THE CHILDREN OFHIPPIES.AND TO THEM, THE SUMMER OF LOVEWAS A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN AMERICANHISTORY.>> WHEN WE WERE KIDS, WE WERELIKE, WE WERE BORN IN THE RUNGENERATION.WE WANTED TO BE A PART OF THISTHING.TO BE A PART OF IT NOW IS REALLYAMAZING FOR US, BASED ON THATHISTORY.♪ CAITLIN: MANY IN THE CROWD,ECHOING THAT SENTIMENT, ANDSAYING ONE REASON THEY BOUGHT ATICKET TO MONTEREY POP WAS SOTHEY COULD BE A PART OF A NEWSUMMER OF LOVE MOVEMENT.>> I AM A HUGE FAN OF THEFESTIVAL AND THE HISTORY.>> ♪ CAITLIN: OTHERS, COMING BECAUSETHEY MISSED OUT ON IT THE FIRSTTIME.>> I WAS IN THE SUMMER OF LOVE,I HAVE A DAUGHTER SO I HAD ABABY IN 1967.I WAS IN HAWAII.>> ♪ WHERE DID THE GREAT ONES GO♪ CAITLIN: RATELIFF SAYS HE THINKSTHE COUNTY IS DIVIDED RIGHT NOWBY POLITICS AND BY CLASS, AND HEAND POPE ARE HOPEFULCROSS-GENERATIONAL EVENTS LIKEMONTEREY POP WILL BRING A NEWSUMMER OF LOVE IN 2017.>> I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANTFOR ALL OF US TO, LIKE, KIND OFLOOK AT WHERE WE ARE IN THEWORLD, WHERE WE ARE WITHOURSELVES, AND HOW WE TREATEVERYONE AROUND US. CAITLIN: IT IS UNCLEAR IF WEWILL HAVE ANOTHER MONTEREY POPFESTIVAL NEXT SUMMER.THE PRODUCERS OF THE SHOWHAVEN'T RELEASED DETAILS ONTICKET SALES OR ON WHAT THETOTAL ATTENDANCE WAS OVER THETHREE-DAY FESTIVAL.DAN: THANKS, CAITLIN.THE THEME OF SUMMER OF LOVE WILLSTILL GO ON, ALTHOUGH THEFESTIVAL IS OVER.AN EXHIBIT AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTIS CONTINUING THROUGH THESUMMER.MONTEREY FIREFIGHTERS WILLCONTINUE TO WEAR TIE-DYET-SHIRTS THROUGH THE END OF THEMONTH, AND THE THEME FOR THE

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Last weekend's Monterey Pop music festival was a flower power-filled success.